It’s time to play catch-up on my short story daily project. While I seemed to be able to commit to reading every day, I find it difficult to find time to write a review post for each week. I’m way behind. Here’s a synopsis of what I’ve learned in the past 50 stories (plus or … Continue reading »
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365 Short Stories: Eight More Days, The Bay Area
My LOVE theme spilled over into another week and wrecked my tidy little plans to post a 7 day week-in-review for 365 Short Stories. Love will do this. Wreck plans. In the similar way, vacations will knock systems off-kilter. If you’re just joining in, I review an on-line short story every day of the year … Continue reading »
365 Short Stories: Week 6 (and a few days), Love
A few week ago, I fell in love again. For me, it only takes a small opening. I felt the zing in my chest, found 8 pm energy even as the sky fell grey with rain and sleet, and wanted to talk about my new beloved to everyone. I tend to fall in love easily … Continue reading »
365 Short Stories: Week 5, Mother Figures
Something pretty interesting happened at 365 Short Stories this week–remember, the choices are random. They were all about mothers. Beginning with Robin MacArthur’s beautiful story at Shenandoah, “Wings, 1989″ and ending with a visual narrative brief by Amy Porter in First Inkling, each story this week featured a narrator whose close observation of a mother/grandmother … Continue reading »
47 Flat Street Gets Some Love Letter Lovin’
February rolled in with biting temperatures, yet stalwart romantics flocked to an empty storefront bedecked in sheets of cardboard painted red. As the night progressed, so did the interactive art installation called One Thousand Love Letters, a project conceived by Dalia Shevin, an artist in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dalia’s goal is to save the love letter, … Continue reading »
365 Short Stories: Week 4, Discontent
I do this: read one short story on-line, each day, every day, and I am doing it for 365 days. Why? I need to know what’s going on out there and what I mean by that is this: I need to know what’s going on right here, as in, right in front of me on … Continue reading »
365 Short Stories: Week 3, Short
I must have had a busy week or maybe I’ve got the flash bug that Robert Vaughan talks about in his 2010 interview at Lake Effect: Flash Fiction Fridays, because all of the stories from Week Three, we’re very short. So, in deference to the form, I’ll keep this post brief. What I gleaned from … Continue reading »
